Runoff set in Vidor mayor race, Ward 1 a squeaker

Vidor voters will head to the polls again next month to pick a new mayor after no candidate received more than half of the ballots cast in that race Saturday.

A little more than 12 percent of the 5,881 registered voters in the city cast a ballot in the election for mayor and three council seats.

Of the 712 ballots cast in the three-way mayor’s race, Misty Songe received 340 votes, or 47.75 percent o…